Passage to Cuba: An Up-Close Look at the World's Most Colorful Culture

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To stroll the streets of Cubato hear the rumbling engines of its 1950s automobiles, the jazz, and the rumbais to travel back in time, to see jaw-dropping natural beauty and the artists, musicians, and folklore of legends.
With access few others have had, Cynthia Carris Alonso has spent twenty years capturing Havanas crumbling, baroque splendor. Her photographs celebrate the dreamy palette of Cubasalmon pink, sky blue, apricot, aqua greenand reveal the contrast between patina homes; peeling stucco apartments; and the great Capitol Building, Havana Cathedral, and Hotel Nacional.
With Passage to Cuba, Alonso opens the doors to an exquisite but rarely seen place. So take a stroll along the Malecn seawall; marvel at the dancers with their colorful, ornate costumes; lose yourself in Jos Fusters spellbinding mosaic designs; or simply relax in the warm sun of the countryside, where the calm, aging fishermen spend their days and where Ernest Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea.
This keepsake volume is a breathtaking tribute to a land with a complex history. Its a lush, vibrant collection of photographs and a road map to use to embark on a remarkable odyssey.

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Cynthia Carris Alonso depicts Cuba with an insiders access and a visitors sense of wonder. She captured rare views of authentic Cuban culture: innovative artisans and vibrant musicians, vintage cars and buildings in faded glory, colorful characters whose relative isolation hasnt dampened their spirits. Its an insightful survey of a land with a rich but enigmatic past and a promising future. Jack Crager, Senior Contributing Editor, American Photo

Cynthia Carris Alonsos poetic images are word pictures chock-full of Caribbean color and light that reveal a passionate people whose magical spirit appears to sing and dance before her very lens. Patricia Pedraza, Senior Producer, CNN en Espaol

Passage to Cuba takes the viewer on a visual journey to a land that time forgot. From musicians to architecture, Alonsos images document the complex culture with undiluted sincerity. James K. Colton, Editor at Large, ZUMA Press, and Former Director of Photography, Sports Illustrated, Sipa Press, and Newsweek

Cynthia is able to manifest in photography the same soulfulness that one hears in the music, moves in the dance, feels in the warmth of sunlight on skin, and resides so deeply Cuba. Rachel Faro, Grammy AwardNominated Record Producer, President, Ashe Records, and Cuban Music Specialist

Cynthia Carris Alonso has a rare photographic eye, one that captures not only Cubas beauty, but also the soul of its special culture. In Cynthias photographs, youll see why Cuba inspires so much passion and love. Sandra Levinson, Executive Director, the Center for Cuban Studies/Cuban Art Space, New York City
Cynthia Carris Alonso depicts Cuba with an insiders access and a visitors sense of wonder. She captured rare views of authentic Cuban culture: innovative artisans and vibrant musicians, vintage cars and buildings in faded glory, colorful characters whose relative isolation hasnt dampened their spirits. Its an insightful survey of a land with a rich but enigmatic past and a promising future. Jack Crager, Senior Contributing Editor, American Photo

Cynthia Carris Alonsos poetic images are word pictures chock-full of Caribbean color and light that reveal a passionate people whose magical spirit appears to sing and dance before her very lens. Patricia Pedraza, Senior Producer, CNN en Espaol

Passage to Cuba takes the viewer on a visual journey to a land that time forgot. From musicians to architecture, Alonsos images document the complex culture with undiluted sincerity. James K. Colton, Editor at Large, ZUMA Press, and Former Director of Photography, Sports Illustrated, Sipa Press, and Newsweek

Cynthia is able to manifest in photography the same soulfulness that one hears in the music, moves in the dance, feels in the warmth of sunlight on skin, and resides so deeply Cuba. Rachel Faro, Grammy AwardNominated Record Producer, President, Ashe Records, and Cuban Music Specialist

Cynthia Carris Alonso has a rare photographic eye, one that captures not only Cubas beauty, but also the soul of its special culture. In Cynthias photographs, youll see why Cuba inspires so much passion and love. Sandra Levinson, Executive Director, the Center for Cuban Studies/Cuban Art Space, New York City

Author Bio

Cynthia Carris Alonso has been a photographer and photo editor for more than twenty years, working for publications such as Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Business Week, and Time.com, and exhibiting her photographs around the United States and in Canada and Latin America. Since the early 1990s, Cynthia has traveled regularly to Cuba, photographing the countrys most famous artists, important news events, and the daily life of the people. In 1992, Cynthia met her future husband in Cuba, and today she lives with him and their daughter in New York City.